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border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;"><big><span style=
"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">This page contains some
instructions for installing and/or building Virtual AGC on
Mac OS X. I no longer recommend using these
instructions, but they work reasonably well ... up to a
certain point. I am archiving them here just in case
somebody who built Virtual AGC using them wants to refer to
them.</span></big><br></td></tr></tbody></table><br><h2><a name=Installing_the_Mac_OS_X_Binaries id=
"Installing_the_Mac_OS_X_Binaries"></a>Installing the Mac OS X
Binaries</h2><span style=
"font-weight: bold;">Disclaimer:</span> I really
<span style="font-style: italic;">really</span> don't know how to
package programs for installation on Mac OS X. The binaries
may not work on your system. The installation procedures
may not work on your system, and are complex compared to what
you're used to (but easier than building from source). I
know that it worked on the 10.2 machine I used to build it, and I
have feedback (from Fabrizio Bernardini) that the binary package
works fine on 10.3. On the other hand, I personally tried
to install it on a friend's 10.3 machine, and the installation
failed at step #3, so I never got to find out if the Virtual AGC
program ran or not. Hopefully it'll work for you; if not,
you may still need to end up building Virtual AGC yourself, as
described <a href=
"#Building_Virtual_AGC_in_Mac_OS_X">below</a>. If the
binary installation works for you, or if you understand how to
improve the process, let me know. (Hint: giving me a
link to a 10-page howto is <span style=
"font-style: italic;">not</span> the level of help I'm looking
for.) I apologize for the complexity relative to what
you're used to, but at my level of Mac OS (non-)skill you're
lucky to get anything at all. :-)<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Another disclaimer:</span>
I should warn you, I suppose, that it takes <span style=
"font-style: italic;">so long</span> to install the prerequisites
you need to run Virtual AGC, that you get very little advantage
from installing the Virtual AGC binary package rather than simply
building Virtual AGC from source. But enough
negativity! Let's get installing!<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Installation:</span><br><ol><li>Install the X-window system (<span style=
"font-weight: bold;">XFree86</span>). For Panther, this
is apparently an optional install from your Apple-supplied Mac
OS X CDs. For Jaguar, you can download from the <a href=
"http://sourceforge.net/projects/xonx/">XonX
project</a>.<br></li><li>Install <a href="http://fink.sourceforge.net"><span style=
"font-weight: bold;">fink</span></a>, which is a program that
is used to install other programs. Make sure that you
choose the version of <span style=
"font-weight: bold;">fink</span> that works with your version
of Mac OS X, and follow the instructions on the <span style=
"font-weight: bold;">fink</span> webpage. <br></li><li>Use <span style="font-weight: bold;">fink</span> to install
<span style="font-weight: bold;">gtk+</span> version 2.
This is done from the command-line with "<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">sudo fink install gtk+2</span>".</li><li>Now download the current Mac OS X binary package of Virtual
AGC (yaAGC-macosx-<span style=
"font-style: italic;">RevisionCode</span>.tar.bz2). On my
computer, <span style="font-weight: bold;">stuffit</span>
automatically unpacked this when I downloaded it. If not,
you'll have to manually unpack it from the command line, as
follows:</li></ol><div style="margin-left: 80px;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">cd Desktop</span><br><span style="font-family: monospace;">bunzip2
yaAGC-macosx</span><span style=
"font-family: monospace;"><span style=
"font-family: monospace;">-<span style=
"font-style: italic;">RevisionCode</span></span></span><span style="font-family: monospace;">.tar.bz2</span></div><ol start=5><li>Install, with this command:</li></ol><div style="margin-left: 80px;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">sudo tar --directory=/
-xf yaAGC-macosx</span><span style=
"font-family: monospace;"><span style=
"font-family: monospace;">-<span style=
"font-style: italic;">RevisionCode</span></span></span><span style="font-family: monospace;">.tar</span></div><ol start=6><li>You'll probably still want the source-code tarball, since
it contains a lot of stuff (like source code for the Luminary
and Colossus programs) that aren't in the binary tarball.
So download yaAGC-dev-<span style=
"font-style: italic;">RevisionCode</span>.tar.bz2 and unpack
it, thus creating a directory called "yaAGC" containing the
stuff listed at the top of the page:</li></ol><div style="margin-left: 80px;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">tar --bzip2 -xf
yaAGC-dev</span><span style=
"font-family: monospace;"><span style=
"font-family: monospace;">-<span style=
"font-style: italic;">RevisionCode</span></span></span><span style="font-family: monospace;">.tar.bz2</span></div><ol start=7><li>If you want to run Stephan Hotto's <a href=
"yaTelemetry.html"><span style=
"font-weight: bold;">LM_Simulator</span></a> program (and I bet
you do!), you'll need to install <a href=
"http://www.tcl.tk/"><span style=
"font-weight: bold;">Tcl/Tk</span></a>. Do this
either by following the instructions at the <span style=
"font-weight: bold;">Tcl/Tk</span> website, or else use
"<span style="font-family: monospace;">sudo fink install
tcltk</span>". (I did the latter, myself, so I can't
really vouch for the former.)<br></li><li>Running the program is a little more complex than you're
used to:</li></ol><ul><ul><li>Run the X-window system. This will (as a side
effect) probably cause several command-line windows to open
up.</li><li>In one of the command-line windows that opened up, type
the following:</li></ul></ul><div style="margin-left: 120px;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">set path = ($path
/usr/local/yaAGC/bin)</span><br style=
"font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">SimLuminary131<br></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><ul><li>In some cases, the simulated DSKY won't immediately
display on the screen. Instead, the cursor will simply
change shape, indicating that it wants you to position the
DSKY on the screen. Click on the screen, and the
simulated DSKY will appear where you click.<br></li></ul></div><ol start=9><li>You can stop the program simply by stopping the X-window
system. If you don't want to do that (say, because you
have other X programs running also), then stopping the program
is also a little complex:</li></ol><ul><ul><li>Use the mouse to focus the command-line window you used
to start the program.</li><li>Hit ctrl-C on the keyboard to stop the CPU
emulation.</li><li>Type the command "<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">killall yaDSKY</span>" to stop the
DSKY emulation.<br></li></ul></ul><ol 0><li>Enjoy, if you're still capable of it after all
that!<br></li></ol><span style=
"font-weight: bold;">Uninstallation:</span> Just remove the
/usr/local/yaAGC directory containing the binaries, and the
Desktop/yaAGC directory containing the sources.<br><h2><a name=Building_Virtual_AGC_in_Mac_OS_X id=
"Building_Virtual_AGC_in_Mac_OS_X"></a>Building Virtual AGC in
Mac OS X</h2>I had significant help in getting Virtual AGC
working on Mac OS X. Matteo Giani was the first to get
Virtual AGC working, on Mac OS X Panther (10.3); in Virtual AGC
version 20040828 and later I've incorporated the changes he
needed to make to get it to work. <a href=
"MacOSscreenshot.pdf">Here's a screenshot</a> Matteo has given
me. After some additional advice from <a href=
"GregDunnPanther.txt">Greg Dunn</a>, and the appearance of a
document from Apple called "<a href=
"http://developer.apple.com/darwin/runningx11.html">Configuring
and Running X11 Applications on Mac OS X</a>", I've managed to
get Virtual AGC working in Mac OS X Jaguar (10.2) as well.
Presumably it will work in all other versions of Mac OS X, but I
can hardly guarantee it. In fact, I have had reports that
it failed to build even on some 10.3 machines, so apparently it's
not entirely consistent.<br><br>
While none of the steps below is difficult, building the software
nevertheless requires a lot more command-line work than the
typical Mac OS X user finds congenial. A binary installer
would be <span style="font-style: italic;">much</span> better for
the typical user. Sadly, I don't know how to package the
executables to allow them to be installed directly on a Mac
without all of this nonsense, because I'm not a Mac software
developer at heart and haven't the energy to learn.
Step-by-step instructions for creating an installer (perhaps in
the form of mods to the makefiles) from anybody who <span style=
"font-style: italic;">does</span> know would be very welcome.<br><br>
The following instructions have been tested on a pristine
installation of Jaguar (10.2.8). (In other words, I
completely wiped my Mac and reinstalled Mac OS X, just to make
sure these instructions would work.) To begin with, you'll
need to install a substantial amount of stuff on your Mac.
It will use up a lot of disk space and take a long time to do
so.<br><ol><li>Install Apple's "developer tools", either from the CD that
Apple supplies with the Mac OS X installation CDs, or as a
download from Apple.</li><li>Install the X-window system (<span style=
"font-weight: bold;">XFree86</span>). For Panther, this
is apparently an optional install from your Apple-supplied Mac
OS X CDs. For Jaguar, you can download from the <a href=
"http://sourceforge.net/projects/xonx/">XonX
project</a>.<br></li><li>(Optional.) Install the <a href=
"http://alleg.sourceforge.net/">Allegro</a> cross-platform GUI
kit. This is only needed to build <span style=
"font-weight: bold;">yaACA</span>, which is presently only in
the early development stage. If you skip this step, the
build-process (below) will display warnings and fail to build
<span style="font-weight: bold;">yaACA</span>, but will work
normally otherwise. However, <span style=
"font-weight: bold;">yaACA</span> gives you the ability to use
the rotational hand controller (RHC) in the LM, and that
substantially adds to the fun-factor of using the
simulation. (Sadly, when <span style=
"font-style: italic;">I</span> try installing <span style=
"font-weight: bold;">Allegro</span> on my iMac, it fails to do
so, so I really don't have the option.)<br></li><li>Install <a href="http://fink.sourceforge.net"><span style=
"font-weight: bold;">fink</span></a>, which is a program that
is used to install other programs. Make sure that you
choose the version of <span style=
"font-weight: bold;">fink</span> that works with your version
of Mac OS X, and follow the instructions on the <span style=
"font-weight: bold;">fink</span> webpage. <br></li><li>Use <span style="font-weight: bold;">fink</span> to install
<span style="font-weight: bold;">gtk+</span> version 2.
This is done from the command-line with "<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">sudo fink install gtk+2</span>".</li><li>Use <span style="font-weight: bold;">fink</span> to install
<span style="font-weight: bold;">automake</span> ("sudo fink
install automake"). These are already present on your
computer, but the Apple-supplied version didn't work for
me. Fortunately, this new version won't conflict with
your Apple-supplied ones, which will remain on your
computer.</li><li>If you want to run Stephan Hotto's <a href=
"yaTelemetry.html"><span style=
"font-weight: bold;">LM_Simulator</span></a> program (and I bet
you do!), you'll need to install <a href=
"http://www.tcl.tk/"><span style=
"font-weight: bold;">Tcl/Tk</span></a>. Do this
either by following the instructions at the <span style=
"font-weight: bold;">Tcl/Tk</span> website, or else use
"<span style="font-family: monospace;">sudo fink install
tcltk</span>". (I've done only the latter, so I don't
know how well the former works.)</li><li>Now download the current development snapshot of Virtual
AGC (yaAGC-dev-<span style=
"font-style: italic;">XXXXXXXX</span>.tar.bz2). On my
computer, <span style="font-weight: bold;">stuffit</span>
automatically unpacked this when I downloaded it. If not,
you'll have to manually unpack it from the command line, as
follows:</li></ol><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">cd Desktop<br>
bunzip2 yaAGC-dev</span><span style=
"font-family: monospace;"><span style=
"font-family: monospace;">-<span style=
"font-style: italic;">RevisionCode</span></span></span><span style="font-family: monospace;">.tar.bz2</span><span style="font-family: monospace;"><br>
tar -xf yaAGC-dev</span><span style=
"font-family: monospace;"><span style=
"font-family: monospace;">-<span style=
"font-style: italic;">RevisionCode</span></span></span><span style="font-family: monospace;">.tar<br><br></span></div>Now that all of the tools you need are installed, you build
Virtual AGC basically by just following the same (command-line)
instructions as do the Linux folk:<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">cd Desktop<br>
cd yaAGC</span><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">./configure
--prefix=/sw</span><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">make<br>
sudo make install<br></span></div><br>
Having built and installed Virtual AGC, you run it like this:<br><ul><li>The installation of the X-window system will have provided
some way to start the X-window system. (On Jaguar, there
is an <span style="font-weight: bold;">XDarwin</span> icon on
the desktop.) Go ahead and start X-windows.</li><li>Starting X-windows will (hopefully) will call up one or
more 'xterm' command-line windows. Within one of these
windows, simply use the <span style=
"font-weight: bold;">SimColossus249</span> or <span style=
"font-weight: bold;">SimLuminary131</span> command,
<span style="font-style: italic;">et voila</span>!</li><li>Proceed over to <a href="index.html#Quick_Start">quick
start</a> on the home page to see some things you can do with
it.</li></ul>(<span style="font-weight: bold;">Note</span>: The
following advice presently doesn't work very well, and is present
for future purposes.) <span style=
"color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">It may be that you just can't build
the software, no matter how hard you try. In almost all
cases, the reason for this will be a problem in installation or
configuration of</span> <span style=
"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">gtk+</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(with which I'll
probably be unable to help), and that all of the programs will
build fine except for</span> <span style=
"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">yaDSKY</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">and</span> <span style=
"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">yaDEDA</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">.
In this case, as a last resort, you can do the
following:</span><br style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><ol style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><li>Instead of "./configure --prefix=/sw", do "make NOGUI=yes
PREFIX=/sw autogen".</li><li>Instead of "make", do "make NOGUI=yes".<br></li><li>Instead of "sudo make install", do "sudo make NOGUI=yes
install".</li><li>Instead of running "SimLuminary131" or "SimColossus249",
run "SimLuminary131_lite" or "SimColossus249_lite".</li></ol><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">What these steps
will do for you is to bypass the problematic steps such as
building</span> <span style=
"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">yaDSKY</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">and</span> <span style=
"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">yaDEDA</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">,
and to use instead the "DSKY Lite" module of the</span><span style=
"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">LM_Simulator</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">program (which doesn't
need to be compiled, and so doesn't normally cause you a problem
... or at least, causes</span> <span style=
"font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">different</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">problems).</span><br><hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><center><br><span style=
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